Kayak Psychology

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Sports psychology
When setting a goal you are more likely to be motivated to learn a new skill or improve a current skill. Goal setting is planning out ways to achieve an accomplishment during a certain amount of time. When learning how to kayak we had both long term and short term goals. When setting goals which will help to learn or improve a skill they need to be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and timely. This allows you to know and understand what you need to do to achieve theses goals. When working on your goal if you are able to know what you need to do to achieve these goals it will mean you are able to manage your time better. Knowing that you have completed your goals can continue to motivate you to get better at the …show more content…

Using mental imagery when learning how to kayak helps to get the most out of the sessions in the pool. Kayak rolling is a skill which we could only practice during class. Having mental imagery meant that I could build on to what I hard already learnt in the kayak roll and remembering when to do certain things such as flexion of wrist flexors. I was a bit scared when we went to the ocean. Mental imagery helped me to not be as anxious us I could stay focused and be confident as I knew how to roll and all of the steps. Confidence is the belief that someone has on their ability. Being prepared means that you will be more confident when having to complete the skill. Once I knew the correct technique of the roll mental imagery helped to speed up improvement as I knew what the motion was meant to look and feel like. I was able to feel mentally prepared to do a roll as I know how the skill of the roll should be completed. I used mental imagery in class when we were talking about rolling. This helped to save time as although we didn’t have access to the pool during some lessons I was used mental imagery to be able to recap what I had learnt and the feeling behind it. This effecting my learning as when I was in the pool I was able to maximize my time doing the skills. The skill of the kayak roll has different stages of movement from the set up to the finish position. Mental imagery can affect our level of arousal. Although mental imagery does benefit us I found that in ways thinking about the kayak roll meant that I had a low level of arousal as thinking about having to do the skills made me nervous. I was nervous as I didn’t want to go under and not been able to roll up. Thinking about what would feel like using mental imagery made me nervous as the kayak roll was a new skill that I had never done before so thinking about being in the sea was negative so it

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